UID:
edoccha_9960947472702883
Format:
1 online resource (304 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780271052571
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0271052570
,
0-271-05505-7
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0-7210-5023-9
,
9780271058832
,
0-271-05883-8
Series Statement:
Penn State Romance studies
Content:
What is love? Popular culture bombards us with notions of the intoxicating capacities of love or of beguiling women who can bewitch or heal--to the point that it is easy to believe that such images are timeless and universal. Not so, argues Laine Doggett in Love Cures. Aspects of love that are expressed in popular music--such as "love is a drug," "sexual healing," and "love potion number nine"--trace deep roots to Old French romance of the high Middle Ages. A young woman heals a poisoned knight. A mother prepares a love potion for a daughter who will marry a stranger in a faraway land. How can readers interpret such events? In contrast to scholars who have dismissed these women as fantasy figures or labeled them "witches," Doggett looks at them in the light of medical and magical practices of the high Middle Ages. Love Cures argues that these practitioners, as represented in romance, have shaped modern notions of love. Love Cures seeks to engage scholars of love, marriage, and magic in disciplines as diverse as literature, history, anthropology, and philosophy.
Note:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Interest Politics and the Popular Sectors -- 1. Introduction: Popular Representation in the Interest Arena -- 2. Situating the Analysis: Analytic Approach, Cases, and Historical Context -- 3. Logics of Collective Action, State Linkages, and Aggregate Traits: The UP-Hub Versus the A-Net -- Part II: Individual Participation in the Interest Arena -- 4. Direct Action and Associational Participation: Problem-Solving Repertoires of Individuals -- 5. Political Participation and Representational Distortion: The Nexus Between Associationalism and Partisan Politics -- Part III: The Popular-Sector Interest Regime -- 6. Targeting State and Society: Strategic Repertoires of Associations -- 7. Three Forms of Scaling: Embeddedness, Nodal NGOs, and Flexible Fronts -- 8. Associational Linkages to Labor Unions and Political Parties -- Part IV: Conclusion -- 9. General Patterns and Emergent Differences -- Appendix A: Selection of Focus Districts -- Appendix B: Survey of Associations -- Appendix C: Survey of Individuals -- Contributors -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780271035314
Language:
English
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